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Table Of Contents
- ThinApp User’s Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Installing ThinApp
- Capturing Applications
- Phases of the Capture Process
- Preparing to Capture Applications
- Capturing Applications with the Setup Capture Wizard
- Create a System Image Before the Application Installation
- Rescan the System with the Installed Application
- Defining Entry Points as Shortcuts into the Virtual Environment
- Set Entry Points
- Manage with VMware Horizon Application Manager
- Set User Groups
- Defining Isolation Modes for the Physical File System
- Set File System Isolation Modes
- Storing Application Changes in the Sandbox
- Customize the Sandbox Location
- Send Anonymous Statistics to VMware
- Customize ThinApp Project Settings
- Defining Package Settings
- Customize Package Settings
- Opening Project and Parameter Files
- Build Virtual Applications
- Advanced Package Configuration
- Capturing Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP
- Capturing Multiple Application Installers with ThinApp Converter
- ThinApp Package Management
- Deploying Applications
- ThinApp Deployment Options
- Establishing File Type Associations with the thinreg.exe Utility
- Building an MSI Database
- Controlling Application Access with Active Directory
- Starting and Stopping Virtual Services
- Using ThinApp Packages Streamed from the Network
- Using Captured Applications with Other System Components
- Performing Paste Operations
- Accessing Printers
- Accessing Drivers
- Accessing the Local Disk, the Removable Disk, and Network Shares
- Accessing the System Registry
- Accessing Networking and Sockets
- Using Shared Memory and Named Pipes
- Using COM, DCOM, and Out-of-Process COM Components
- Starting Services
- Using File Type Associations
- Sample Isolation Mode Configuration Depending on Deployment Context
- Updating and Linking Applications
- Application Updates That the End User Triggers
- Application Sync Updates
- Using Application Sync in a Managed or Unmanaged Environment
- Update Firefox 2.0.0.3 to Firefox 3 with Application Sync
- Fix an Incorrect Update with Application Sync
- Application Sync Effect on Entry Point Executable Files
- Updating thinreg.exe Registrations with Application Sync
- Maintaining the Primary Data Container Name with Application Sync
- Completing the Application Sync Process When Applications Create Child Processes
- Application Link Updates
- View of the Application using Application Link
- Link a Base Application to the Microsoft .NET Framework
- Set Up Nested Links with Application Link
- Affecting Isolation Modes with Application Link
- PermittedGroups Effect on Linked Packages
- Sandbox Changes for Standalone and Linked Packages
- Import Order for Linked Packages
- File and Registry Collisions in Linked Packages
- VBScript Collisions in Linked Packages
- VBScript Function Order in Linked Packages
- Storing Multiple Versions of a Linked Application in the Same Directory
- Using Application Sync for a Base Application and Linked Packages
- Application Sync Updates
- Application Updates That the Administrator Triggers
- Automatic Application Updates
- Upgrading Running Applications on a Network Share
- Application Synchronization Using Group Policy Object
- Sandbox Considerations for Upgraded Applications
- Updating the ThinApp Version of Packages
- Application Updates That the End User Triggers
- Locating the ThinApp Sandbox
- Creating ThinApp Snapshots and Projects from the Command Line
- ThinApp File System Formats and Macros
- Creating ThinApp Scripts
- Callback Functions
- Implement Scripts in a ThinApp Environment
- API Functions
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting ThinApp
- Glossary
- Index
ThinApp User’s Guide
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Specifies that the user be prompted to enter a password.
If you do not want to store the virtual machine password in the configuration file, specify the value as true.
When set to true, a prompt always appears, even if a password is specified in the configuration file.
Examples
Following is an example for an ESX server-based environment. A password has been specified and, as
PasswordPrompt is set to false, the user will not be prompted to enter a password.
[VirtualMachine1]
VmxPath=[Storage] WinXP_Converter/WinXP_Converter.vmx
UserName=administrator
Password=secret
PasswordPrompt=false
Following is an example for a VMware Workstation-based virtual machine. On virtual machine 1,
PasswordPrompt has been set to true. The user will be prompted for a password even though a password has
been specified in the configuration.
[VirtualMachine1]
VmxPath=C:\MyVMs\Windows XP\Windows XP.vmx
UserName=administrator
Password=secret
PasswordPrompt=true
[VirtualMachine2]
VmxPath=C:\MyVMs\Windows 7\Windows 7.vmx
UserName=adminuser@mydomain.com
Password=
PasswordPrompt=true
Settings
The Settings section of the configuration file contains the parameters for the application installation directory
and ThinApp project output directory, in the form of UNC. It also contains several parameters controlling the
conversion process behavior.
ThinApp Converter only requires read-only permissions for the network share that contains the application
installers. It requires read/write permissions for the network share that contains the ThinApp projects.
If input and output directories are on the same file server, you must use the same user account to connect them.
InputUncPath
Specify the network share UNC path for the application installers. For example: \\fileserver\sharename,
or \\fileserver\sharename\dirname.
InputMountUserName
Specify the user name used for connecting to that network share. UPN format can be used when you specify
a domain user, for example user@domain.com
InputMountPassword or InputMountPasswordBase64
Specify the password for connecting to the network share. You have the following options when you specify
passwords:
You can enter clear text.
You can specify a base64 encoded password for the PasswordBase64 parameter.
InputMountPasswordPrompt
Specifies that the user be prompted to enter a password.
If you do not want to store the network share password in the configuration file, specify the value as true.
When set to true, a prompt always appears, even if a password is specified in the configuration file.
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OTE Do not place the path in quotation marks, even if the path contains a space.